In their recent work, Andreas Schellenberger and Kai Phillip Schmidt investigate correlated light-matter quantum systems introducing additional matter-matter interactions. Their key finding is that the matter-matter interactions do not play a role in the emerging light-matter physics at low energies for the investigated case of macroscopic systems and small light-matter couplings.
You are responsible for diversity and equal opportunities at the FAU Profile Center Light.Matter.Quantum Technologies. What would be the ideal situation for you as far as this topic is concerned?
–– Ideally, we wouldn’t have to talk about this topic at all, but that is a utopian dream. A great deal of progress has been made in equal opportunities during the last few decades.
As one of the FAU Awards, the Renate Wittern-Sterzel Prize went to two teams this year. One of those is the organisation team, including the PIs Sabine Maier and Kai Phillip Schmidt from LMQ, around the conference “Diversity in Physics for the Diversity of Physics in Erlangen” taking place for the first time in 2022 at FAU.
